Singapore raises its partying profile

USATODAY.com, 26 Feb 2009, Kitty Bean Yancey

SINGAPORE — Around midnight, a female impersonator in a blond wig, heels and fishnet stockings introduces himself as "MiStevious" and points a manicured fingernail at couples canoodling on the white cushioned ledges that line the walls of the 6-month-old restaurant/lounge called supperclub Singapore.

If the party is slow to start, supperclub's host enlivens it by roller-skating and lip-syncing to the disco anthem It's Raining Men. Meanwhile, fashionably dressed women and men will "have a hug and a cuddle, maybe really make out," the U.K. native says. "It's the place to do it."

Singapore? The former British colony famed for banning the sale of gum to eradicate discarded wads and still caning those caught engaging in licentious behavior and other offenses?

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